Sourav Ganguly All Set To Be Replaced By Roger Binny As BCCI President. Here's How Ravi Shastri Reacted
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Former India head coach Ravi Shastri has welcomed the idea of Roger Binny replacing Sourav Ganguly as the president of the BCCI. Binny was Shastri's teammate when India won the 1983 World Cup.
The journey as the president of the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) seems to be coming to an end for Sourav Ganguly who first took up the job in 2019. Roger Binny, who was a part of India's World Cup-winning squad in 1983, is said to be the front-runner for the job that will be vacated by Ganguly. Though an official announcement on the matter is yet to be made, former India head coach Ravi Shastri is delighted to see Binny being the one taking up the top spot in the board.
"Roger's name has come up and I am delighted. He was my colleague in the World Cup. There is continuity here because he was the president of the Karnataka State Cricket Association and now, he moves on to become the president of the BCCI. I am extremely happy because it's a World Cup winner who is the president for the first time in the history of the BCCI," Shastri said during an interaction at the Mumbai Press Club on Wednesday, as per Sportstar.
Binny filed his nomination for the president of the BCCI but it isn't yet known whether Ganguly will hold another post in the board or not. It has been reported that Ganguly was keen to continue as the board's chief but didn't receive the backing he wanted from other members. Reacting to this development, Shastri said: "nothing is permanent in life."
"As I read in the media, I don't think anyone had a second term as president. So, the way things stand, it gives an opportunity for another cricketer. Nothing is permanent in life and you can only do certain things for so long and then you have to move on," Shastri said.
"Something I am doing today does not mean I will do the same thing for three years from now. There will be new people coming in, new people taking over. In a way, it's healthy."
